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...Manhattan. The U.S. chain-reacting piles at Hanford, Wash., Ridenour says, are now operating at a rate of at least 3,000,000 kilowatts. This means that the radioactive materials they produce in a month could contaminate (at the rate of two curies per square meter) about 144 square miles of territory. The area of Manhattan Island, Ridenour points out cheerfully, is slightly more than 22 square miles...
Richland, a complete new town of 24,000, had sprung up on the desert at Washington's Hanford plutonium works, and two others-Kennewick and Pasco-had been virtually reborn as a result. Years of steady construction had ringed and dotted Seattle (pop. 525,000), Spokane (pop. 180,000), Portland (pop. 436,000) and dozens of other smaller towns with new stores, factories, and miles of freshly painted houses. The poorest of the houses boasted green lawns and flowers...
...Yakima fruit orchards (apples, pears and peaches) had apparently surfeited their market. An early Northwest dream-vast trade with the Orient-had blinked out. In 1950 the slack was being taken up with public money: Boeing's big airplane contracts, the Bremerton Navy Yard, hydroelectric projects and the Hanford plant made the U.S. Government the region's biggest employer...
This was thhe "most fruitful activity of the Council so far as immediate results were concerned," according to A. Chester Hanford, who was Dean of the College then. In a like manner, the Council's 1926 Report on Education had perhaps the most lastingly palpable results, for it contained well considered recommendations on the "residential college," or House system...
...Poskanzer Report" and one or two others, the reports have not been either so numerous or of such high quality since the war as they were before. Perhaps an undue concern with daily affairs has kept the Council from doing such work as merited praise from Dean Hanford before the war. "There is not a council in any other college which has done so much or has exerted a greater influence on educational developments than the Harvard group," he said. The recent Councils have exerted little influence except on problems the Dean has specifically asked for opinions...